THRILLING BOXING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 3

THRILLING BOXING

BLAY BEATS DONOVAN CEOWD BURSTS INTO STADIUM (Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, last night, hi a most thrilling fight, as distinguished from a lioxtngcontest, Hobby I'.lay, 111, of Australia, to nigh I defeated Tom'my l lonovait, Ihc featherweigh I champion of the I loininion. Though 'ixuu people Occupied seals in the stadium. 50U wore tinnblo to gain admission. Shortly after X o'clock the crowd ou.tside burst like a tide through the outside turnstiles and, breaking in the main doors <>f the hull like so much mutch wood, stormed upstairs, brushing officials aside like chaff lirhMv the wind. Some poodle even perched on the roof, and the splintering of a skylighi added a thrill Id the events of the evening. Knlliusiasts w< re even perched high up In precarious positions <>n Ihc rafters. Eventually, the services of the police u'ere j'ufjuislUotK'd mid Uiohm SUU persons were ejected by n strong posfio. There was only one man in the fight. Donovan forced the fighting in the. first few rounds and was faster and fitter and more aggressive than He has ever boon. The New Zealand champion, however, got all the tight he was looking for and a little more. Dazed l|i the third round, Donovan was sent to the mat in tin- fourth, eighth, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth and fourteenth rounds. The referee, Mr. Perry, stopped the unequal combat and awarded Hlay the decision. 13lay and Donovan have been signed for a return bout at New Plymouth on February 7. NEW AMATEUR TYPE UNORTHODOX DUTCHMAN LONDON, Nov. 28. The first team of Dutch boxers to visit this country provided fighting of 11 type widely differing from the traditional. British amateur style, in their match with tlio Army last night at the Stadium Club, London, The Englishman's conception of an 'amateur boxer in the main is of a man [standing erect, nicely poised, with punches shooting straight from the shoulder, and the straight left acting as the chief weapon of offence. But these Dutchmen, for the most part, were crouching, rushing iigures, who scorned the straight punch ai|d exploited the hooked blow and the swing. You could not dosuribe- them as stylish, but their methods were none the less effective. They also had the distinction of being tlio .smartest turned-out team of boxers seen in an amateur match., Neatly attired in their national colors —red singlets and bills shorts ringed, with white —(hey presented an imposing sight when they filed into the ring before the first light, to be introduced to their opponents. The Army has a way of giving a happy touch to these international events, and the, greeting of the boxers when they appeared with the national anthems of both countries was a gesture which did not fail to gain appreciation AMAZED BUT SPORTING As In the boxing, one wonders whether the unorthodox methods of the Dt'lclimcu did not act against them hi the eyes of the judges. They lost the first three lights off the reel! and whilo Corporal .Jones undoubtedly beat l'loeg, the 19-yoars-old Dutch feather-weight champion, the verdicts in the first two lights seemed all against tho evidence of the, rounds. LaiiibilJiun. tho lly-woiglil, especially gave such ii splendid display of liumi 'and furious bitting against Bandsmen Fairhurst that it did not seem possible ho could lose. The Englishman's straight. left was quite insulliciont against an avalanche of round-arm blows. lie was badly shaken and cut and at no stage was he the aggressor. Sergt. llii.'.lam. the veteran flyweight champion uf .tho Army, gave bis bantam weight opponent, Nieuwonborg, a. much sloulcr argument, 'bill lioi'o again one thought il uas a, case of puif.'h mid pare mil balancing coolness and craft. If uas always a close light, bill, it was llasliim who look Hie greater punishment, and ho was rjuce ilioppi d cleanly by II jaw punch a. feat. few boxers have been able to accomplish.